| Content Description | For more detailed descriptions see sections Pl F7/1-9 below.
This material is largely that which can be identified as belonging in 'Box 40' in the list of the Duke of Portland's papers compiled in 1817 (see Pl L8/2/8 below).
The Duke of Portland acquired estates from his distant cousin Thomas Brand the younger, one of the heirs of the Pierreponts, Dukes of Kingston, in the 1770s but (as the evidence here and in section Pl F5 shows) was unable to pay for them. One of those who then purchased these properties from the Duke was his brother-in-law, Lord Richard Cavendish, whose other purchases of estates in Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and environs are also recorded here.
Lord Richard died prematurely in Naples. Under the trusts of his will his principal beneficiaries were his sister, the Duchess of Portland, and her children. Lord Richard's trustees advanced money on mortgage to the 3rd Duke of Portland (bringing about a small overlap of material listed here and at Pl F5), and the Duke ultimately bought a small portion of Lord Richard's estates when they were sold off by the trustees in the 1800s. |